Ex-roller rink owner held on child porn charges

CANTON (GHMI) — Police arrested the former owner of Canton’s Skateland Tuesday on a child pornography charge five months after an initial arrest for alleged criminal sexual abuse.

Stephen J. Lloyd, 67, was taken into custody at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Bartonville. His bond was set at $75,000. Lloyd posted bond Wednesday morning.

According to the Canton Police Department, Lloyd’s computers were seized on Dec. 27, 2013, through a search warrant served on suspicion of possession of child pornography. They were taken to Springfield for evaluation, and review by a computer forensics examiner yielded evidence of child pornography.

Lloyd is also charged with aggravated criminal sexual abuse to a person under the age of 18. He was taken into custody on that charge when police served the search warrant in December.

Lloyd is scheduled to appear in court next month for a pre-trial conference on the sexual abuse charge.